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Cadence wrote:
I like missionaries. I like them to come into my house. We should not be fearful of what they may say or do. They are really just 18 year ignorant kids doing what they think is right. I have found it is so easy to deflect their questions without appearing antagonistic. I just use logic on them.
So feed them, ask them where they are from. Get them to talk about themselves as much as possible and not about you.
That’s pretty much the way it works at my house. The sisters stop by when tracting/teaching in our area and they’re always made welcome, unless I’m here by myself of course. Both the sisters and elders get invited over for dinner and as Cadence says, it’s pretty easy to direct the conversation in the right direction. Our missionaries tend to stick pretty close to the one hour rule and with dinner there’s not lots of of time for the unexpected to happen. They usually want to leave with a “spiritual thought” which always consists of reading a benign scripture and perhaps a testimony. They have never seemed to direct these at me and I have never been offended or put off by these.
I’m with ya’ll. We have had the missionaries over for dinner a few times as well since we moved into this new ward. I work from home, so that makes it easier to schedule a time when both me and my wife can be here, meaning we get asked a lot. It works pretty much as DarkJedi described. It’s never been a problem or anything. I enjoy helping them out, especially knowing how nice it was to get dinners when I was out. My only concern this time is to be prepared to answer whatever questions they may pose since they’ll be here specifically to teach the first discussion. Like I mentioned before, I don’t think well on my feet.
Quote:I don’t think well on my feet.
Then make sure you are sitting.
I had asked the sisters to come over and teach the discussions to DD. I asked that they visit about once a month for 6 months. In all I think they had 4 visits in all. I could tell that they were pretty much running out of the cool object lessons for 8 year olds anyway.
I wanted DD to have a basic idea of what the church teaches and I wanted her to see some good female role models.
When I mentioned it to bishop, he said that he was ok with the missionaries teaching but he also hoped we would discuss baptism subjects in FHE.
I am learning to appreciate my bishop.
cwald wrote:Yes.
My advice, regardless of what happens, be nice.
Sometimes it sucks being a missionary…they’re just kids.
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Yes, totally second this. They’re not evil, although some mishies can be arrogant and smug! Most are just young men, trying to do the best with what they’ve got.
Don’t be scared of them either. I expect you know that they report back, but they can’t force you or your children to do anything.
Here’s a little status update on this. We had to put everything off. My family got infected by this nasty cold virus that’s really contagious, and it’s taking us a few weeks to work through it. The missionaries have dropped by twice to see how we’re doing, and we just have to keep telling them that we’re still sick. We’ve rescheduled the baptism for Jan 18th, but I’m not sure if we’ll end up having the missionaries over before then or not. I know that when I was a missionary, I probably would have shrugged off the idea of getting sick, but having just lived through this one, I really don’t want to pass it on to anyone. The missionaries finally came over. I didn’t have anything to worry about. They focused pretty much exclusively on my son. They’re coming back every week for a while to go through all the discussions. There was one awesome moment where they used the analogy of the wall, with all of us on one side and Jesus and Heavenly Father on one side. You can’t go under it, over it, or around it. They asked, how can we know what Heavenly Father wants to tell us if there’s a wall? (I remember doing this on my mission.) My son said, “Well, you just pray and the Holy Ghost tells you.” I thought “Yes!” They paused for a second in surprise, and clarified that the Holy Ghost tells you things for just yourself, but the prophet stands on top of the wall and receives revelations meant for the whole church. I’m going to talk to him and make a few clarifications of my own.
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